HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. by HUGHES, Richard (Richard Arthur Warren), 1900-1976 :

London : Chatto & Windus, 1929. First British edition. Hughes' highly regarded novel of childhood innocence and piracy on the high seas. "I was some fifty years older when I read the book again: a different person reading a different novel, sinister, darker, more poignant and more complex. A High Wind in Jamaica is one of those rare novels that works on more than one level and can appeal to all ages. It changes as we change, and its theme is change herself" (Michael Holroyd). Filmed in 1965 with Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Viviane Ventura, etc. Originally published in New York earlier the same year as "The Innocent Voyage". Crown 8vo (20cm). [iv],(284)pp. Original green cloth; top edge green; a few minor signs of age and use, but a good and sound copy in the dust-jacket - the jacket price-clipped and a little worn and tanned, with a handful of tiny chips and short tears, but not unattractive.